Jettisoning political payload for tunnel-vision point of view, Ridley Scott's unflinching recreation of 1993's US-grunts-versus-Somali-masses catastrophe achieves a near-unbearable level of visceral realism rarely trapped on celluloid. In a medium where `War Is Hell' is a bumper-sticker tagline, Black Hawk Down's suffocating depiction of combat terror makes it one of the few films to remind us what the words really mean. "It's about the man next to you. That's all it is..."
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